Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:52:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> To: eistal@cyf-kr.edu.pl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Could you help me ? Message-ID: <199710200752.JAA26607@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <344A94A8.10DE38A9@cyf-kr.edu.pl> from Janusz Stal at "Oct 20, 97 00:15:53 am"
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> I have FreeBSD 2.1 Release. > A few months ago I deleted 20 users. Sometimes (once a week) I get 20 > mail letters > like this: > > ============================================================ > Subject: > Returned mail: User unknown > Date: > Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:16:49 GMT > From: > Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@nina.ae.krakow.pl> > To: > root@nina.ae.krakow.pl > > > > > The original message was received at Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:16:48 GMT > from root@localhost > > ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- > miderm (unrecoverable error) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 miderm... User unknown > > ----- Message header follows ----- > > > Subject: > Nvi saved the file marta1.xyz > Date: > Fri, 17 Oct 1997 21:16:48 GMT > From: > root (Nvi recovery program) > To: > miderm It looks like your deleted users did edit file with vi when a catastrophe happened and all vi programs crashed. (maybe because of a reboot during editing. Every time you boot, the /etc/rc script tries to send a message to the user telling him that he can recover from the desaster. To get rid of these messages clean the directory /var/tmp/vi.recover. > > ----- Message body suppressed ----- > > =================================================== > How to stop getting letters? > > > > > > I get daily run output report once a day, too. In it there is the > following > sequence: > > ***============ > mail: > Mail Queue (1 request) > --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- > ------------Sender/Recipient------------ > CAA05173* (no control file) > ***============ > How to delete this request ? delete this file in /var/spool/mqueue. Wolfgang
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